US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Interleaved servo patterns in a data storage device" (California, Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,435, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interleaved servo patterns in a data storage device" was invented by Guoxiao Guo (Irvine, Calif.), Scott A. Ottele (Longmont, Colo.), Richard Conway (San Jose, Calif.), Joey M. Poss (Rochester, Minn.) and Gary Herbst (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example control circuitry, data storage devices, and methods for parallel self-servo writing of interleaved servo patterns in a data storage device are described. The data storage device may include multiple heads actuated over different surfaces of a data storage device and rece...